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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!

Monday, September 18, 2017

I’ll share the transcript of Senator John McCain’s “Face the
Nation” interview (as “film” for the
purpose of this blog), on CBS on Sunday.
Sept. 17, 2017. He discusses the gravity
of the threat of North Korea but also discusses military training accidents and
is now sympathetic to transgender service in the US military. In late 2010, he was at first somewhat reluctant
to sign on to the repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”.

Resilient Societies says that Senator Diane Feinstein has “admitted”
that North Korea can hit the US now almost anywhere with a nuclear weapons, or
implicitly an E1-level EMP.

Jeff Goldberg showed footage of the “Unite the Right” rally
in Charlottesville, triggered by the proposal to take down a confederate statue
(Robert E. Lee’s) in Lee Park in that city.

Alex Lehnert reported from Berkeley on the proposed free
speech rally in Berkeley.

The panel comprised Antonia Okafor, Jolene Ivey, Richard
Vatz (Towson Statem MD), Donna Edwards (former MD Congresswoman). There is some concern that “free speech” is
in jeopardy because the way a lot of less intellectual people are socialized.

Vatz pointed out that free speech doesn’t mean there are no
consequences for speech, and he indicated that a lot of people really don’t
believe in individualized free speech if it challenges social order. Professors are not free to speak outside of
their “expertise” at most universities.
Students may feel thet cannot challenge professors on controversial issues. Antonia talked about shutting down someone
else’s opinion in the classroom.

Is this the “trophy generation” of sheltered kids?'

One speaker (Sebastian Gorky) talked about the “failed days
of rage” from 1968 and the snowflake kids of today.

He spoked about ISIS getting Afghan and southeast Asia
warlords to recruit youth.

Ashley Honea spoke from Gettysburg about Pickett’s Charge
and the monuments. Scott Hancock said
confederate monuments could be seen in terms of “states rights” as well as
slavery and do provide teachable moments.

Ivey discussed the intent of putting up the Confederate
statues.

Elias discussed the Media Fairness Caucus, and Scott Thuman
continued the discussion, into the subject of fake news.

The panel then got into Trump’s accusations of the media on “fake
news” and his command “listen to me”.

Brian McConchie reported from Columbia SC on the confederate
battle flag after the Charleston shooting.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

On the Sunday afternoon where Trump and the media reacted
to Kim Jong Un’s claims of having a miniaturized hydrogen bomb, I watched the
13-minute short film, “North Korean EMP
Threat: Real or Ridiculous” by Anon Z, July 8, shortly after North Korea’s first
“ICBM” test.

The woman who narrates this video sounds quite balanced. She
says she voted for Trump, but she says she loves this country.

She traces some warnings to Congress about the EMP threat
back between 2004 and 2006 in some conservative newspapers (like The Washington
Times).

She points out that a small nuclear weapon would much more
likely to be used. She presents James
Woolsey’s claim that the “Shining Star” satellite already in orbit might be
used when over the US. Vut she believes
it is more likely that a weapon would be launched from a submarine or from a
hijacked commercial ship off shore. She
mentions smuggling of North Korean parts through Cuba and Panama. It isn’t hard
to imagine connections between North Korea and Islamic fascists (including Iran)
and even, on a downloadable personal level, ISIS ideology that ensnares young
Muslim adults who feel “left behind”.

A Twitter handle called “ResilientGrid” says that a
thermonuclear hydrogen bomb can execute the third phase of the EMP pulse, but
fission bombs can execute the first phase; so “EMP Deniers” could have been
rebutted even before North Korea’s claims today.

She presents Newt Gingrich’s testimony before Congress
earlier this year, where Gingrich compares this thereat to 9/11 but considers
it a threat to civilization (as in the 2009 book “One Second After”).

She says that an attack would likely be regional, from an
offshore source. The US might recover. But it would not recover from a high-altitude
blast blanketing the entire country. She
says China would then come in an conquer the US, and remaining survivors would
face moral judgment on their ability to function in a communist totalitarian
society.

She also points out that North Korea has unusual hatred for
the U.S. because of the way it conducted itself during the Korean War of the
1950s. It cares less about reunification of Korea, she says.

Resilient Grid claims that the power grid can be protected
for about $5 per American (for less than $2 billion), but I don’t know what
that technology is or the reference. One
issue is to make more transformers at home (a case where keep industry at home –
as Trump claims he wants – is critical for national security).

This reminds me of the "domino theory" of the Cold War, where the draft and the ability to fight conventional war sacrificing young men was seen as a buffer to nuclear war.

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